We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.